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Micro-OPs are not RISC because have no relative roots between them, and because there are not instructions. Actually today?s CISC instructions are very complex and they don't executed at once but in frames in space or time/hz. These frames are decided by the MicroCode of the processor and called Micro-OPs. This is the only way to produce a modern CISC, by lowering the different execution units in a number between 3 and 5 instead of 10-20(impossible), while RISC needs only one (vectors). There are more clever ways like MISC and OISC but these are not for today?s intelligence. Anything I said above is 100% correct, some of you must learn to study first.

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Over time there has been many attempts to introduce a new CPU for Windows users. More and more stories have been added to the x86 house and it is getting tall and weak at the foundations. The makers would love a new set of registers, op codes and features. For it to die though would need a concerted effort from Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, and other users+makers of the CPU structure.

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Lately, Phoronix seems to like to mislead their reader with the title, Or use 'strong words' to add more clicks. Like this one. Fedora Discussion: "ARM Is A Dead End. It's as if majority in the discussion agree that ARM is a dead end.

It's unfortunate. I hope for better jounalism on phoronix with each day passing, but looks like it went the opposite.

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The reason ARM is going to take over the market isn't because of performance or power consumption, it's because of price. Intel has the X86 architecture by the balls, but anyone can go out and buy an ARM license. Looks at companies like Texas Instruments, Samsung, Qualcomm, and even Apple. These are not companies known for making processors, but they're giving Intel a run for their money.

All we need is someone to come along and make a desktop ARM chip. One that is tweaked to hell and clocked at 3-4 Ghz. I could easily see AMD or Nvidia making a motherboard chipset that works for both X86 and ARM CPUs to be inserted.

Much like AMD, the purpose of ARM is to help remind Intel that they aren't a monopoly.

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All we need is someone to come along and make a desktop ARM chip. One that is tweaked to hell and clocked at 3-4 Ghz. I could easily see AMD or Nvidia making a motherboard chipset that works for both X86 and ARM CPUs to be inserted.

I'm highly skeptical of any attempt to make an ARM chip competitive with Intel on the desktop. Intel's manufacturing capabilities give it a large advantage over everyone else, and the ARM companies have no experience building those kinds of chips.

Where they can succeed is in the server space, where efficiency and power usage are important, and they can easily scale to many cores to provide performance.